INTRODUCTION isprsannals II 2 W2 83 2015

SMART AERONAUTICAL CHART MANAGEMENT SYSTEM DESIGN M. E. Pakdil a,b , R. N. Celik a , Ö. Kaya b , Y. C. Konak a,b , C. Guney a a ITU, Civil Engineering Faculty, 80626 Maslak Istanbul, Turkey - pakdilme, celikn, konak, guneycanitu.edu.tr b Pegasus Airlines, AEROPARK, Osmanli Bulvari No:11A, 34912 Pendik Istanbul, Turkey – mete.pakdil, omer.kaya, celil.konakflypgs.com KEY WORDS: Aeronautical, GIS, AIP, AIXM, ARINC, Chart Production, Annex 4, Annex 15 ABSTRACT: Civil aviation is developing rapidly, and the number of domestic and international operations is increasing exponentially eve ry year than the previous one. Airline companies with increased air traffic and the number of passengers increase the demand of new aircrafts. An aircraft needs not only fuel but also pilot and aeronautical information charts, digital navigation information, flight plan, and etc. to perform flight operation. One of the most important components in aeronautical information is the terminal chart. Authorized institution in every state is responsible to publish their terminal charts for certain periods. Although these charts are produced in accordance with ICAO’s Annex 4 and Annex 15, cartographic representation and page layout differs in each state’s publication. This situation makes difficult to read them by pilots. In this paper, standard instrument departure SID charts are analysed to produce by use of cutting-edge and competitive technologies instead of classical computer-aided drawing and vector based graphic applications that are currently used by main chart producers. The goal is to design efficient and commercial chart management system that is able to produce aeronautical charts with same cartographic representation for all states.

1. INTRODUCTION

In Middle East, Asia and Europe, in spite of the recession in the economy, aircraft orders through a newly established and developing airline companies continues to increase. Moreover, large commercial aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus and Boeing allocate majority of their budgets to research and development projects for competition. Aircraft manufacturers are giving priority to research and development projects for fuel economy since fuel costs are largest outgoing in air transportation but an aircraft needs not only fuel but also aeronautical information aeronautical charts, digital navigation information, flight plan, and etc. to complete a flight. Authorized institution in every state is responsible to publish their terminal charts for certain periods. There are few companies that collect every state’s aeronautical charts to reproduce them in a standard page layout and cartographic representation to make readable and accessible for pilots. There are two dominant players in the market, these are; Jeppesen United States of America and Lufthansa System Germany Pakdil, 2014. These companies set rules for the competition. The number of aircrafts and aerodromes are increasing day by day. Aeronautical information charges airlines per aircraft and aerodromes in operation, the cost of this information is increasing dramatically every year, and airlines are becoming more dependent to these companies. In this study, the standard instrument departure SID chart, one of the instrument flight route IFR chart types, is analyzed to produce by use of cutting-edge and competitive technologies instead of classical computer-aided drawing and vector based graphic applications. A system with all components is designed to produce aeronautical charts at a low cost in an efficient way. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 presents data sources of the system with data standards; Section 3 describes aeronautical charts; Section 4 specifies system components.

2. DATA SOURCES